Binding: Not bound. Number of scribes, f. 1r-v: 1. Script, f. 1r-v: Humanistic. Layout, f. 1r-v: One column with 15 lines (remaining 18 of 33 lines are blank), no bounding lines or ruling marks visible.
Former Owner(s):
John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.
John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.
John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.
Manuscript note: See also Frag. Man. 212 and RARE RES BX2080.A1 1500 for 7 other leaves from this manuscript. All are cropped in the same manner and show signs of damage from the flooding of London drains, 1846, in house of John Boykott Jarman. MS broken by Maggs, 1920. Bibliography: M. McC. Gatch, "Fragmenta Manuscripta and Varia at Missouri and Cambridge," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society9 (1990) 434-75. f. 1r-v: Trimmed close to border decoration including an ogival shape around the knot in the lower margin. f. 1r-v: Latin. f. 1r; f. 1v blank: End of the prayer to the Virgin, following straight on after Fragmenta Manuscripta 212v; with concluding prayer to the Virgin, for her intercession at the Last Judgment.
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